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May 11, 2012
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Let’s Get Buzzed Again, Shall We?

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Boy oh boy, it feels like AnDevCon II was only yesterday, doesn’t it? All those workshops, classes, that fabulous expo… Android developers – we’ve been missing you. Let’s #GetBuzzed again next week, shall we? We’ve got a boatload of things happening at AnDevCon III and we can’t wait to see each and every one of you. Here’s what we’re up to: Tuesday, May 15 At 1:45 pm Apkudo Engineer David Teitelbaum and CEO Josh Matthews will present the class, “Who Needs Thumbs? Android Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering.” This advanced level class will teach developers the fundamentals of APK reverse engineering, including…

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April 11, 2012
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Josh Matthews Appointed to Application Developers Alliance Board of Directors!

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We’re very proud to announce that Josh was recently appointed to the Application Developers Alliance Board of Directors! Here’s our press release announcing it: Apkudo CEO Josh Matthews Appointed to Application Developers Alliance Board of Directors Matthews Named as a Founding Director of Newly Formed Apps Alliance April 11, 2012 – Baltimore – Apkudo, Inc., an Android innovation start-up, today announced the appointment of Josh Matthews as a Founding Director to the Application Developers Alliance Board of Directors. With a breadth of experience in the embedded Android ecosystem in addition to being a champion for Android application developers through Apkudo,…

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February 6, 2012
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Testing ROI – A Numbers Game

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This is a guest blog by Bill Weinberg, Senior Executive, Mobile Practice Partner – The Olliance Group Everyone agrees that testing software (and device testing too) is necessary and valuable. Everyone looks to testing to endow software and handsets with quality and reliability. But test engineering is often pure misery – in the quest for bugs and faults and other failures, developers are damned if they find bugs and more damned if they don’t. Testing is a numbers game. There are probably graduate theses and tortured theorems that testify in detail as to why you can never totally test a…

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January 10, 2012
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Of CES, Fragmentation, and Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Hear ye, hear ye, fellow tech nerds! The glorious Consumer Electronics Show is upon us and you know what that means, right? A crop of new Android phones! But with the bountiful harvest of these snazzy new gadgets comes…dun dun dun…fragmentation! Ah, fragmentation. The Android application developers mortal coil. Different UIs from different OEMs, divergence in hardware, look and feel, behavior, APIs, etc, etc, we developers need a hero. Enter Ice Cream Sandwich. While ICS is a step in the right direction for fragmentation in some respects (e.g. unifying Honeycomb and Gingerbread), there are some ways it makes things a…

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December 19, 2011
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Gnarly, Bro

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Late last week we got our first entry for the “Get Buzzed T-Shirt Photo Contest,” and it’s too badass not to share. Check it out: And, yes. He stuck that landing like a boss. Big thanks to David Wagner for shredding with our t-shirt on. Keep the pictures coming, everyone! -Kate

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December 15, 2011
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Developer Survey T-Shirts: An update

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First, I’d like to say again how thankful we all are that so many developers took the time to fill out our Android Developer Survey. You guys and gals kick serious ass. We’ll be publishing a report with the survey results soon after the new year so keep an eye out for it! About the t-shirts Fun fact: 9 out of 10 scientists agree. Wearing an Apkudo t-shirt makes you 24% more attractive to the opposite sex.* I’ve gotten a few emails, tweets, and strangely enough a homing pigeon – which I thought to be an antiquated, however effective, form…

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December 13, 2011
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Testing with Monkey

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There’s no point sugar-coating it: testing is not exactly the most fun you can have with a computer. However, it’s an important part of providing a good user experience. Well-tested apps make their users happy, and happy users don’t post incomprehensible one-star reviews like these (taken from a recent sampling of high-ranking Market apps): On Android, there are many options available for automated testing, starting with the Android Testing Fundamentals page, then moving on to beta testing and advanced automated testing packages like Robotium. But how many people actually use these tools? At Apkudo, we’re interested in questions like these,…

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November 14, 2011
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AnDevCon: That’s a Wrap

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Last Wednesday I tweeted, “If you don’t leave a conference absolutely exhausted, you’re not doing it right. #AnDevCon” I said it because the energy at AnDevCon’s was palpable and it took a lot for all of us at Apkudo to keep up! I’m sure we’ve all been to our fair share of boring, stiff conferences, but AnDevCon blew those shows out of the water. We can’t thank the conference organizers and attendees enough for allowing us to contribute to such an amazing show! Here are a few of the highlights from AnDevCon: Josh’s Lightning Talk about the Apkudo Test Platform…

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November 2, 2011
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Get Buzzed with Apkudo at AnDevCon

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Launching a company is no easy feat. We’ve all been busy bees preparing to launch the Apkudo test platform. We’re also gearing up for our participation at AnDevCon, which is going to be our little taste of honey. We’ve got a lot going on at AnDevCon – here’s the buzz: 1) Apkudo CEO Josh Matthews will participate in the “Lightning Talk” sessions between 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm on Monday, November 7. Josh is going to give a super-fast, super-fun presentation on Android’s biggest challenge – the F word (not that F word, the other F word – fragmentation!) –…

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